(2014-05-27, 00:21)MFKinSINY Wrote: DUDE!!! This addon freakin RULES!!! Thank you for all your efforts! I wanna share what I've learned after accidentally stumbling upon this gem. It may help some other people figure out their problem(s)
I got stuck right out of the gate with the image url. Thankfully, my parents gave me the gift of relentlessness. I have an X10 ip camera. (yeah, I know.... X10 is blah compared to zWave & so many other better & newer technologies but eh)
The url I use to get to my cameras webpage is 192.168.1.xxx/IPCameramob.htm and there it asks for username & password, so of course I thought that this is what I needed to enter into the config. WRONG!!! Did not work. Ultimately I had to blank the two fields for username & password and "construct" a url based on what I discovered by right-clicking on the webpage & selecting "view source"
My url ended up being: http://192.168.1.xxx/snapshot.cgi?user=uuuuuuuuuuu&pwd=pppppppppppp;brightness_input.value=6;contrast_input.value=4;
Of course, my username & password were used in place of my idiot markers above. Below is a portion of the "source" that led me to this url construct. Note that I can add more parameters after each semicolon if I choose to (or need to)
Good luck to all. I hope this helps out someone. Look for clues in the source of your webpage. Nobody ever uses my doorbell (I dont know why) so I will be setting up an infrared trip line hooked up to an Arduino that sends your json request when it is tripped (and I built an xbmc remote on my iPhone using iRule that will include a new button to initiate the same request, like a panic button on a security dvr) Now that I am thinking about it, two successive trip lines with logic so the request only gets sent when someone is coming & not when they are going. hmmmmmm Again.... MUCH thanks to the author of this addon! It was an exciting day for me

function body_onload()
{
imgDisplay.src="snapshot.cgi?user="+top.user+"&pwd="+top.pwd;
snap_href.href="snapshot.cgi?user="+top.user+"&pwd="+top.pwd;

brightness_input.value=6;
contrast_input.value=4;
resolution_sel.value=resolution;
mode_sel.value=mode;
brightness_input.value=Math.round(brightness / 16);
contrast_input.value=contrast;
image_reversal.checked=(flip&0x01)?true:false;
image_mirror.checked=(flip&0x02)?true:false;
window.status='';
}
function load_video()
{
window.status=" ";
setTimeout("reload_image()",40);
}
function reload_image()
{
var xx = new Image();
xx.src = "snapshot.cgi?user="+top.user+"&pwd="+top.pwd+"&count="+count;
count++;
document.getElementById("imgDisplay").src = xx.src;
window.status=" ";
}
function reset_image()
{
window.status=" ";
setTimeout("reload_image()",40);
}

(2014-11-16, 16:32)Extraze Wrote: I've found this piece of code which is a hybrid of this thread's code and the previous (doorbell script) :

im way out of my league in python, I would appreciate any help with it : ... im basically simply trying to get the feed from 4 cameras, I don't need any trigger or anything, just want to click on the addon and have the camera feeds show on screen indefinitely with a reload every x seconds.

Code:

# Import the XBMC/XBMCGUI modules

import os, time, urllib2, xbmc, xbmcaddon, xbmcgui, xbmcvfs

__addon__ = xbmcaddon.Addon()
__addonid__ = 'script.doorbell'

url=’http://192.168.1.240:240/image/jpeg.cgi’
url1=’http://192.168.1.241:241/image/jpeg.cgi’
url2=’http://192.168.1.242:242/image/jpeg.cgi’
url3=’http://192.168.1.243:243/image/jpeg.cgi’

path = xbmc.translatePath(‘special://profile/addon_data/%s’ % __addonid__)

if not xbmcvfs.exists(path):
xbmcvfs.mkdir(path)

imagefile = os.path.join(path, ‘cam1.png’)
imagefile1 = os.path.join(path, ‘cam2.png’)
imagefile2 = os.path.join(path, ‘cam3.png’)
imagefile3 = os.path.join(path, ‘cam4.png’)

#========================================================================
# Class – Set the initial image
#========================================================================

class CamView(xbmcgui.WindowDialog):
#class CamView(xbmcgui.Window):

def __init__(self):
#
#set the initial image before the window is shown
#aspectRatio : [opt] integer – (values
# 0 = stretch (default),
# 1 = scale up (crops),
# 2 = scale down (black bars)
# colorDiffuse : hexString – (example, ’0xC0FF0000' (red tint))

urllib.urlretrieve(url, imagefile)
self.image = xbmcgui.ControlImage(0, 0, 640, 360, imagefile, aspectRatio=2) # top-left
self.addControl(self.image)

urllib.urlretrieve(url1, imagefile1)
self.image1 = xbmcgui.ControlImage(640, 0, 640, 360, imagefile1, aspectRatio=2) # top-right
self.addControl(self.image1)

urllib.urlretrieve(url2, imagefile2)
self.image2 = xbmcgui.ControlImage(0, 360, 640, 360, imagefile2, aspectRatio=2) # bottom-left
self.addControl(self.image2)

urllib.urlretrieve(url3, imagefile3)
self.image3 = xbmcgui.ControlImage(640, 360, 640, 360, imagefile3, aspectRatio=2) # bottom-right
self.addControl(self.image3)

#========================================================================
# Program
#========================================================================

viewer = CamView()
viewer.show()

start_time = time.time()
firstimage = True

while(time.time() – start_time <= 59):

urllib.urlretrieve(url, imagefile)
viewer.image.setImage("")
viewer.image.setImage(imagefile)

urllib.urlretrieve(url1, imagefile1)
viewer.image1.setImage("")
viewer.image1.setImage(imagefile1)

urllib.urlretrieve(url2, imagefile2)
viewer.image2.setImage("")
viewer.image2.setImage(imagefile2)

urllib.urlretrieve(url3, imagefile3)
viewer.image3.setImage("")
viewer.image3.setImage(imagefile3)

xbmc.sleep(500)

viewer.close()
del viewer

(2014-12-06, 00:08)Leopold Wrote:

(2014-11-16, 16:32)Extraze Wrote: I've found this piece of code which is a hybrid of this thread's code and the previous (doorbell script) :

im way out of my league in python, I would appreciate any help with it : ... im basically simply trying to get the feed from 4 cameras, I don't need any trigger or anything, just want to click on the addon and have the camera feeds show on screen indefinitely with a reload every x seconds.

Code:

# Import the XBMC/XBMCGUI modules

import os, time, urllib2, xbmc, xbmcaddon, xbmcgui, xbmcvfs

__addon__ = xbmcaddon.Addon()
__addonid__ = 'script.doorbell'

url=’http://192.168.1.240:240/image/jpeg.cgi’
url1=’http://192.168.1.241:241/image/jpeg.cgi’
url2=’http://192.168.1.242:242/image/jpeg.cgi’
url3=’http://192.168.1.243:243/image/jpeg.cgi’

path = xbmc.translatePath(‘special://profile/addon_data/%s’ % __addonid__)

if not xbmcvfs.exists(path):
xbmcvfs.mkdir(path)

imagefile = os.path.join(path, ‘cam1.png’)
imagefile1 = os.path.join(path, ‘cam2.png’)
imagefile2 = os.path.join(path, ‘cam3.png’)
imagefile3 = os.path.join(path, ‘cam4.png’)

#========================================================================
# Class – Set the initial image
#========================================================================

class CamView(xbmcgui.WindowDialog):
#class CamView(xbmcgui.Window):

def __init__(self):
#
#set the initial image before the window is shown
#aspectRatio : [opt] integer – (values
# 0 = stretch (default),
# 1 = scale up (crops),
# 2 = scale down (black bars)
# colorDiffuse : hexString – (example, ’0xC0FF0000' (red tint))

urllib.urlretrieve(url, imagefile)
self.image = xbmcgui.ControlImage(0, 0, 640, 360, imagefile, aspectRatio=2) # top-left
self.addControl(self.image)

urllib.urlretrieve(url1, imagefile1)
self.image1 = xbmcgui.ControlImage(640, 0, 640, 360, imagefile1, aspectRatio=2) # top-right
self.addControl(self.image1)

urllib.urlretrieve(url2, imagefile2)
self.image2 = xbmcgui.ControlImage(0, 360, 640, 360, imagefile2, aspectRatio=2) # bottom-left
self.addControl(self.image2)

urllib.urlretrieve(url3, imagefile3)
self.image3 = xbmcgui.ControlImage(640, 360, 640, 360, imagefile3, aspectRatio=2) # bottom-right
self.addControl(self.image3)

#========================================================================
# Program
#========================================================================

viewer = CamView()
viewer.show()

start_time = time.time()
firstimage = True

while(time.time() – start_time <= 59):

urllib.urlretrieve(url, imagefile)
viewer.image.setImage("")
viewer.image.setImage(imagefile)

urllib.urlretrieve(url1, imagefile1)
viewer.image1.setImage("")
viewer.image1.setImage(imagefile1)

urllib.urlretrieve(url2, imagefile2)
viewer.image2.setImage("")
viewer.image2.setImage(imagefile2)

urllib.urlretrieve(url3, imagefile3)
viewer.image3.setImage("")
viewer.image3.setImage(imagefile3)

xbmc.sleep(500)

viewer.close()
del viewer

I had a quick go at this. Try script.multi.cam-0.0.1.zip.

(2014-12-20, 21:47)Extraze Wrote: just found a little bug.

the directory storing the images never clears itself, so it doesn't take long for it to get to 1GB+ of jpg files.

is there a way to clean the directory every couple of seconds ?

(2014-12-07, 22:22)Slurm Wrote: Is there a way to disable / hide the rss feed when the camera image is shown?

(2014-12-20, 21:59)iolaus Wrote:

(2014-12-20, 21:47)Extraze Wrote: just found a little bug.

the directory storing the images never clears itself, so it doesn't take long for it to get to 1GB+ of jpg files.

is there a way to clean the directory every couple of seconds ?

The script is meant to clean up after itself when the cam overlay is closed. Are you seeing different behavior or is the issue that you're leaving the overlay open long enough that the snapshots start to add up?

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(2014-12-21, 00:29)Extraze Wrote: yeah, I can see in the code the clean-up part on close... im trying to make it clean up every couple of seconds but I suck so much in python, (I had to ask my GF to help me out with the first iteration of this program lol)

(2014-12-21, 00:29)Extraze Wrote: The actual purpose of this particular RaspberryPi is to monitor these 4 cameras, (it will sometimes be used for media but only in rare occurrences) so in about 1 hour of viewing, I got close to 1GB of images... so it wouldn't take long for the SD card to fill up.